Door-hanger.



No. 836,952. PATENTBD NOV. 27, 1906.

LE ROY WILLOUR.

DOOR HANGER.

APPLIGATION FILED APR.9,1906.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nev. 27, 1906.

Application alga April 9,1906. serial No. 310.745.

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LE ROY WILLOUE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ashland, in the county of Ashland and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and yuseful Improvements in Door-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in door-hangers; and it particularly pertains to hangers for doors, such as edgewise-movable car-doors and barndoors, and especially resides in the provision of novel and adjustably-mounted track-pulleys.

It is a primary consideration of the present invention to provide a track-pulley frame having adjustment in all directions, so as to compensate for inequalities between the various component elements of the invention.

It isa further object of the invention to provide a door-hanger in which the strain of the door upon the hanging devices shall be equalized in order to eliminate as far as possible wear upon the parts, due for the most part to lines of unequal strain and the vibration consequent therefrom.

The detailed construction will appear in the course of the following description, in which reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, like characters designating like parts through out the several views, wherein- Figure 1 is a front elevation showing the relation of the several elements of the invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, the door being in section. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the track-pulley and supporting means therefor. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the track and the door-han ers carried thereby; and Fig. 5 is a side e evation,

partly in section, of a modified embodiment of track-pulley. l In the ractical embodiment of my invention the etter A designates a movable door of conventional form, which isv provided along its upper edge with hooks 1, which engage eyebolts 2, carried by the door-hangers 3 and adjustably held therein by nuts 4. The hangers 3 have rigid connection with and depend from the track 5. The track 5 is coeXtensive with the width of the door, and it will be seen from the foregoing description that the door A is positively suspended therefrom. Said door A is vertically adjustable with relation to the hangers 3 by the nuts 4 and is horizontally adjustable with relation to said hangers by virtue of a longitudinal slot therein, through which the eyebolt 2 passes and in which it is rigidly hetd at any vertical adjustment desired by said nuts 4. As shown, said track comprises a pairof angle-irons 6, disposed back to back in parallel relation and rigidly connected by any approved fastening means, such as rlvets 7, extending therethrough and through the shank of the angular door-hanger 3, interposed therebetween.

The devices above described are carried by the door A and are complemented in their functions by constituent devices secured to a stationary part of the structure and from which the track 5 is suspended.

Mounted upon the stationary wall of the barn or car are a series of brackets 8, provided severally with horizontal forwardlyeXtending arms 9. Adj ustably mounted upon each of the arms 9 is a sleeve 10, which is provided at each end with depending apertured .legs 1 1, arranged in spaced alined relation and having inwardly-projecting stub-shafts upon which the track-pulleys 12 are journaled, leaving a space 13 therebetweenwithinwhich is received the vertical portion of the track 5, the horizontal portions thereof resting upon the pulleys 12 on each side thereof.

The sleeve 10 is spaced away from the arr'n 9 on all sides in a portion of its dimensions and is held in adjusted position by setscrews 14, threaded through the top wall thereof and bearing against the arm 9, and by set-screws 15, threaded through the side walls thereof and bearing against the sides of the arm 9.

In Fig. 5 I have disclosed the use of a single track-pulley 16 supported in an angular bracket 17 and journaled upon a stub-shaft 18, projecting throu h a vertical slot 19 in said bracket. Said s aft 18 is formed with a threaded portion 20, which receives an adjusting-nut 21, bearing against the bracket 17 and designed to adjust the shaft 18 and the track-pulley 16 horizontally with relation thereto, and in this function cooperates with a collar 22, carried upon the free end ofthe shaft 18 and held rigidly thereupon by a set-screw 23, bearing against said collar and threaded into the lower end of the hanger 17. By operating the set-screw 23 a vertical ad- IOO justment of the shaft 18 is effected, said shaft being set at any desired position along the vertical slot 19.

The various devices comprising the doorhanger and track above described are rotected from the ravages of the Weather y a vertically-disposed angularly-formed cover or housing 24, secured t0 a stationary part of the structure, as shown in Fig. 2.

In practical use the car-door A moves lone gitudinally with the track 5, which rides upon the track-pulleys 12. The car-door A is adjusted with relation to the hangers 3 in the manner before described. The sleeve 10, which carries the track-pulleys 12, is capable of horizontal and vertical adjustment upon the arms 9, and said sleeve is set in any position to Which it may be adjusted, vertically by the screws V14 and horizontally by the screws 15. Similar adjustment is had with the device shown in Fig. 5, vertically yby the screw 23 and horizontally by the nut 21.

Having fully ydescribed my invention, I j

claim- I 1. A door-hanger comprising a movable track, a door suspended therefrom, stationary brackets, track-pulleys supported from said porting said track-pulleys, and means i'or adjustably positioning said track-pulleys ,with relation to said supporting means.

8. The combination with a door, and a longitudinal track carried thereby, of a support for said track comprising a stationary bracket, a sleeve supported uponv said bracket and formed With depending legs provided Wth inwardly-projecting stub-shafts, track-pulleys journaled upon said shafts, and

upon which said track is movably positioned,

and means for adjustably positioning said sleeve 'with relation to said bracket.

In testimony 'whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

' I LE ROY WrLLoUR.

Witnesses: s

J. C. SLOAN, JOHN A. WILLOUR.` 

